VHF/UHF/SHF Committee

Kobus van der Merwe, ZS3JPY reports that between 19:45 and 21:45 UTC on Wednesday 7 November 2018, a QSO took place on 2 metres between St Helena Island and the West Coast of the Northern Cape. A distance of 2 740 km.

The QSO was on 145,500 MHz FM using a vertically polarised antenna between Garry Mercury, ZD7GWM and Kobus (ZS3JPY) and Michelle (ZS3TO) van der Merwe in Kleinzee as well as Cobus van Baalen, ZS3CVB in Port Nolloth. They did try a QSO on 70 cm, but the signals did not provide for a successful QSO. They will try again on 8 November.

The only historical databese of IARU R1 VHF/UHF/Microwaves contest results is maintained on the OK2KKWweb page (MNI TNX).

Contest results for year 2017 and beyond will be regularly posted on this web site or directly on the IARU R1 contest server.

2018:

UHF/Microwaves Contest- provisional results - complaint period closes on 24th of March 2019. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

145 MHz Contest - provisional results - complaint period closes on 17th of March 2019. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Note: in a large number of DL LOGs mandatory information about used equipment (power and antenna) is missing. All such logs were therefore treated as check-logs. As this was the first year when the new contest rules imposed additional mandatory information in the EDI header (beside CALL, UL, band and section), we are willing to accept late corrections. DL stations that would like to classify in the contest (MO or SO section) should provide missing information to the above contact address.